WRITING
FEATURED:
Common Currents is a new public artwork celebrating the life and impact of Hussein Samatar, by Ifrah Mansour, Randy Walker and Aaron Marx. The wave-like sculpture is made of colorful metal panels inscribed with poetry by local writers Sun Yung Shin, Sharon M. Day, ShaVunda Brown, Aegor, Ahmed Said Salah, Sixco, and Mohamed Shariff. Read more at hiiraan.com
WRITING
FEATURED:
Common Currents is a new public artwork celebrating the life and impact of Hussein Samatar, by Ifrah Mansour, Randy Walker and Aaron Marx. The wave-like sculpture is made of colorful metal panels inscribed with poetry by local writers Sun Yung Shin, Sharon M. Day, ShaVunda Brown, Aegor, Ahmed Said Salah, Sixco, and Mohamed Shariff.
SELECTED WRITING
“Minneapolis author reflects on the winter solstice and ‘tigers in the woods’,” December 2022, Minnesota Star Tribune
Script writer, “The day the streets turned purple,” a podcast about the day Prince died, The Current Rewind, Minnesota Public Radio, Nov. 2020. Listen on Spotify
Script writer, “The day the sky fell,” a podcast about club safety: especially for the LGBTQI+ community, The Current Rewind, Minnesota Public Radio, Nov. 2020 Listen on Spotify
“A Pavilion of Dipthongs,” co-authored with Vi Khi Nao, published by Metatron Press
New essay “A Korean Orphan Undergoes Catholic Training for Future Poets,” published May 16, 2023 in anthology Poetry as Spellcasting: Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting Liberation and Reclaiming Power by Tamiko Beyer, Destiny Hemphill and Lisbeth White, North Atlantic Books, Penguin Random House
Read “A story of Wholeness: Part One — What is Lost” and “A Story of Wholeness: Part Two — What is Gained” at Pollen Midwest. Story by Sun Yung Shin, illustration by sunshine gao.
“To Make a Light, It was Dark,” book review in Korean Literature Now
“Detonations,” from The Wet Hex, featured on Literary Hub
“In The Cut: Being Asian American During This Pandemic (A Word Find Puzzle),” Pollen Midwest
“Abecedarian: On Purchasing and Receiving Genetic Information from Two Commercial DNA Companies” featured in the 2020 issue of Poetry (Poetry Foundation).
“A History of Domestication,”Academy of American Poets
“Evolution in the Underworld,” “Whiteness: A Vanishing,” “In the House of Moths,” VIDA Review
“Wasp Hollows,” work-in-progress collaboration with composer Dameun Strange
Roundtable, “CONTRABAND” PRACTICE: DOING ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE WITH WATER,” edited by Simi Kang, Open Rivers: Rethinking Water, Place, and Community.
“My First Voyage Out,” The Portable Boog Reader II – An Anthology of Minneapolis-St. Paul and New York City Poetry (PDF)
“Incantations: The SCOTUS Decision in Trump v. Hawaii” in which 14 writers cast spells in response to the SCOTUS and POTUS, Unmargin
“The Sadomasochistic Ero-Poetics of the Betrasian (Betraying + Asian),” Unmargin
“Castaways in Paradise | Passing Through: None,” BOMB Magazine
“The Wolveish Forage,” Dusie
“A Series of Short Stories or Propositions,” Under a Warm Green Linden
“The Gardener of Hell,” Cultural Society
“Empty Ring, Nest Fire,” Academy of American Poets
“(Demilitarized Zone),” Minnesota Public Radio